Friday 2nd November 2018

[Cbdave]

G'day

NOPE for today

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[Whispers]

#NOPE

 

 

[Martian5]

NOPE!!!!!!!!!

[johnny5]

NOPE!

 

Happy Friday, everybody!

[Parsley]

Happy to still be nope!

[G67]

NOPE!

[Reciprocity]

[Mee]

[notsmokinjo]

Morning NOPErs... and welcome to the first Friday of the month... so checked the calendar... not too keen on Love Your Lawyer day and seriously question Deviled Eggs getting their own day.... so a fun facts are ... Emus... now I have noticed on you tube heaps of people can't say this word properly so lets start with that... they are not E-moos... no these freaky creatures are call Eam-you-s (eam as in beam).... anyway back to the fun stuff, these are the second largest birds in the world and can grow up to 6ft high... and the chicks emus are bigger than bloke emus which are usually around the 5ft mark.... while they can not fly they can run up to 30m/hour and use their deformed midget wings as stabelisers when running. They can also swim and will cross rivers and lakes that are in their way. Emus use their lungs as a form of evaporative cooling during the warmer months and so need a large supply of water every day. The are able to jump up to 6ft high so if farming them (because down here we eat the animals on our coat of arms) you need really high fencing... speaking of coat of arms, Emus can not walk backwards (ditto the Kangaroo) which is why it is on the Aussie coat of arms... but on this day, 2nd Nov,  in 1932 the The Great Emu War began... Farmers just outta Perth were being plagued by over 20,000 emus who were rampaging through fields destroying crops. Led by Major G.P.W. Meredith of the Seventh Heavy Battery of the Royal Australian Artillery, the army set out on 2 November 1932, determined to gun down a group of 50 birds in the district of Campion. They moved in formation behind the birds, and the birds answered their organised assault with inspired chaos, scattering themselves in all directions to minimise the casualties.

Two days later, the emus had their revenge. Concealed gunners sighted 1,000 emus nearby, and waited patiently for them to make their way over. At point-blank range they open fired, killing12 emus. But then the machine-gun jammed. The emus scattered once again.The media had a field day, quoting one of the recruits as saying:

"The emus have proved that they are not so stupid as they are usually considered to be." every day the papers in Melbourne and Sydney would give Emu War Updates that were hysterical and it was the biggest joke in town.... the army's next tactic was to chase them in trucks but due to the speed of the emus and the moving trucks they couldn't aim properly and the one emu they did kill got tangled in the trucks steering causing it to crash. In 6 days the army burnt through 2,500 rounds of ammo and killed 200 emus.... the army withdrew to strategise... eventually, later in the month when the Emus numbers were swelling and math showed that it was taking more than 10 bullets to kill one bird the army was withdrawn and the exercise deemed a waste of finances. A poli (politician) from NSW asked if a medal would be struck for the combatants in the conflict and his counterpart from WA responded "any medals should rightly go to the emus who won every round".  So the moral of the story is... if big,  dumb birds that can't even fly you can beat machine guns, trucks and an army the  you can quit smoking.... things only seem impossible until you try.

 

 

NOPE .... I don't do that anymore.

 

 

[Kdad]

Nope

[Tammy]

Nope

[RhinoDragon]

Nope 

[Wee fluffy me]

It's Friiiiddddaaayyyyy..

 

Here's ma cheeky wee NOPE

[MLMR]

Nope

 

 

[Octain]

Nope

[Ferdinand]

NOPE!

[Missdixie]

NOPE!!

 

[catlover]

NOPE.........

[koder3]

NOPE!

[Lilly]

I pledge that no matter what life brings me today I will not smoke 

[SmokeFree]

Nope. Smoking is not an option.

[Hope2Nope]

NOPE 

[Doreensfree]

NOPE !!!

[Sazerac]

NOPE 

[Rozuki]

NOPE